When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKIIf I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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